Benoit Rajalu
Design System Manager at BlaBlaCar
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Rajalu is a front-end design systems manager with 11 years of experience building accessible, responsive interfaces and shaping UI libraries at scale. Currently leading design system work at BlaBlaCar after driving Talend’s WCAG AA-compliant React and Figma libraries, he blends pragmatic engineering with design-first thinking to streamline tokens, components and contributor workflows. Known for clean semantic HTML and elegantly simple interactions, he pairs hands-on coding with documentation, community curation and custom Figma plugins to operationalize design. Based in Nantes, France, Benoit’s background in journalism and communications gives him a knack for clear specs and persuasive cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Corporate Communication, BTS Corporate Communication at Lycée St Félix, NantesTechnicien intégrateur web - Internet, Technicien intégrateur web - Internet at BuroscopeFdA Journalism, FdA Journalism at University of the Arts London
French, English
Github Skills (47)
javascript10
react-components10
design-tokens10
react-redux10
lerna10
reakit10
talend10
react10
storybook-addon9
styled-components9
react-component8
visual-testing8
cypress8
calendar-widget8
storybook8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Benrajalu/fitapp
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
A Fitness log application coded with React and Firebase
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 7 months
firebasereact
Benrajalu/cooking-along
Mar 2019 - Apr 2023
Pet project for a collaborative cookbook.
Contributions:12 PRs, 48 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 1 month
cookbookchef-resourcecollaborativemanaged-by-terraformchef
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